A New Year reminder! (and apologies to those on multiple lists)


      THE CHALLENGE OF IMAGE RETRIEVAL

CIR 99 - Second UK Conference on Image Retrieval
         25 & 26 February 1999

Venue:
   Forte Posthouse Hotel, 
   Newcastle upon Tyne, 
   United Kingdom

The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners 
in the fast-growing area of image retrieval, to exchange information and
gain some idea of the significance of developments in related
disciplines.

Full details of the conference and the online booking form are
available at the web site: http://www.unn.ac.uk/iidr/conference.html

The Conference will be held in the Forte Posthouse Hotel, Newcastle
upon Tyne. All sessions will be held in the Tyne Suite. Lunches on
both days and the Conference Dinner will also be held in the Hotel. 

Bed and breakfast accommodation has been arranged for delegates in 
the Forte Posthouse Hotel at a special price.  Delegates are responsible
for booking their own accommodation. (see web site for details of the 
rates and information on alternative hotels).

PROGRAMME DETAILS FOLLOW:

   Thursday 25 February 1999:

10.00	Registration and coffee
10.20	Welcome and Introductions: Professor David Harper,
                   Robert Gordon University

10.30	Content-Based Image Retrieval technology: can it satisfy real
                   information needs? Presentations and discussion based on a
                   JISC funded report on the state of the art of CBIR technology, 
                   led by Dr John Eakins and Margaret Graham, 
                   Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria 
                  at Newcastle.

12.00          Lunch, system demonstrations and poster viewing

14.00	Submitted papers, session 1 - CBIR applications:
                  Chair: Martin Nail, British Library Research and Innovation Centre

                  "The Informedia digital video library system at the Open 
                  University" R van der Zwan et al, The Open University, Milton 
                  Keynes

                  "Content-based retrieval for European digital libraries" C L Bird et
                  al, IBM UK Laboratories, Hursley Park,

                  "Building systems to block pornography" Y Chan et al, University 
                 of East Anglia, Norwich

15.30	Tea/coffee, system demonstrations and poster viewing 

16.00	Submitted papers, session 2 - CBIR techniques:
                  Chair: Joemon Jose, University of Glasgow

                 "Colour indexing across illumination" G D Finlayson and G Y Tian,
                 University of Derby

                "Robustness of shape similarity retrieval under affine transformation"
                S Abbassi and F Mokhtarian, University of Surrey

               "Trademark image retrieval using multiple features" S Alwis and J
                Austin, University of York

17.30	System demonstrations and poster viewing

Evening:  Conference Dinner


    Friday 26 February 1999:

9.00	Keynote Address: Dr Michael Swain, Cambridge Research Laboratory,
                 Compaq Computer Corporation: "Image searching on the Web: experiences
                 and practice"
                 Chair: Dr. John Eakins, University of Northumbria at 
                 Newcastle

10.00	Coffee, system demonstrations and poster viewing

10.30	Submitted papers, session 3 - New approaches to image data
                   management: 
                  Chair: Dr. Mark Dunlop, University of Glasgow

                 "Superordinate representation of scenes from power spectrum shapes" A
                 Oliva et al, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France

                 "Image browsing and navigation using hierarchical classification" T S
                  Lai et al, University of Sunderland
 
                 "Evaluation of automatic shot boundary detection on a large video test
                  suite" C O' Toole et al, City University, Dublin, Ireland

                 "A flexible architecture for content and concept-based multimedia
                  information exploration" SM Dobie et al, University of Southampton

12.00	Lunch, system demonstrations and poster viewing

14.30	Theme: Emerging standards for image retrieval. 
                  Chair: Dr. Peter Enser, University of Brighton

                  Speakers: 
                   (Speaker to be announced), Technical Advisory Service for Images;
                   "Importance of standards". 
                   Michael Day; UK Office for Library  Networking;
                  "Metadata for images"
                   Dr. Edward Hartley, University of Lancaster; 
                  "Impact of MPEG-7"

                    (includes tea/coffee at 15.30)

16.30	Close of Conference

The Conference is sponsored by:
The British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group
The Institute of Information Scientists
The Robert Gordon University
The University of Northumbria at Newcastle
The British Library Research and Innovation Centre

and supported by:
The British Machine Vision Association and the Institution of 
Electrical Engineers

Full Conference rate = stlg 200 + VAT
One Day registration = stlg 110 + VAT
There is 10% discount for members of the professional groups 
sponsoring/supporting the Conference, and for students.
(N.B.  Accommodation is additional)

All correspondence concerning registration at CIR99 is to be addressed
to Cath Frost:

Email: [log in to unmask]
Telephone: +44 (0)191 227 4646
Fax: +44 (0)191 227 4637

Cath Frost
Institute for Image Data Research
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Newcastle
NE1 8ST

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